/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5687527
The gba version is a lot better I feel. Sandhop's translation is fine for its age but very dry in comparison. Make sure to use the color restoration patch as well.

>>4354636

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>>3796268
ACTUAL answer here. Allow me to go maximum autism.

NES/Wii U: original translation done by Phil Sandhop meant for the US release. Sandhop's translation is pretty dry and has certain lines and sprites censored. On top of that he also made some changes himself for things he thought sounded "childish". Personally I don't recommend it as I feel it just is too much.

GBA: A retranslation by Tomato, who did the M3 version. On top of still having the improvements incorporated in the US version this now has a more faithful script and is entirely uncensored. The biggest flaw comes more from the GBA, which had inferior color and sound. There does exist a color restoration patch however a sound patch still doesn't exist.

NES retranslation: A kind of weird case. This is someone who basically put Tomato's translation on the NES version. Although this sounds ideal it has one kind of big flaw. The reason Tomato translated the GBA version was due to it having more space, meaning lines wouldn't have to put on a limit of characters. On the NES version the character limit is quite shorter meaning certain lines were butchered or kept from the Sandhop translation.

Personally I say either the GBA or the NES version is the way to go. Pick your poison with inferior music or kind of butcheted lines.

Feel free to ask anything else and I'll try to help.

>>3709518
Hard mode is stupid, it was added in by the translators as a little bonus. All it does is double every enemy's health. There is no real reason to play it.

>>3134407

It's my least favourite of the series, but that doesn't really matter because I love all three so much. I felt such a sense of accomplishment when I finished it, and the final battle was so good.
My only complaint is that I'm fucking terrible with directions, so I ended up getting lost way too frequently.